A lot was said lately about the Vorbis/Theora vs h.264/AAC situation on the draft of the HTML5. As some of you know, video is my main hobby these days (I care not about operating systems anymore), so I have gain some experience on the field lately, and at the same time this has made me more demanding about video quality. Read on for a head to head test: OGG Theora/Vorbis vs MP4 h.264/AAC. Yup, with videos. And pictures.

There is nothing to think about. Youtube is big because it's big, the rest have to compete by upping the quality. So quality does matter. And companies like apple and nokia do care about quality, because their customers do, so they won't allow to their browsers to use a lesser codec.

I don't even know why we talk about this. Theora is by their own admission not as good as MP4-Part10. If you care about patents and royalties, use that, but if you are an average consumer, you don't care about it. You are going to pay for it in the price of the product, a few pennies.

Why is osnews an extension of my blog? I made a test which shows clearly what is what, and given the amount of comments here, people are interested in it. That's what we do here, we post interesting stuff. If they are LESS interesting, then they only get posted on our blogs. So, stop trying to make this about me, it ain't. OSNews does not get its stories from sponsors, we just write whatever we find interesting and we think others will too. There is nothing more or less into it. Get over the "become CNN" syndrome.

There is nothing to think about. Youtube is big because it's big, the rest have to compete by upping the quality. So quality does matter.

This doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

If YouTube doesn't have to care about quality, and everyone else does because that's the only selling point they have, and people still use YouTube, then quality simply doesn't matter otherwise everyone would be using something else.